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Computer Graphic Design

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: IMPOSSIBLE IMAGES Spring 2021 – Part 1

Objective:

Students will be able to make an “impossible image” by using digital photography, selection tools, clipping masks and transformations in Photopea so that they can demonstrate their ability to use real digital images to produce realistic (but impossible) image compositions.

Links:

Impossible Images (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/world/gallery/photoshop-artist-martin-de-pasquale/

Topics Discussed:

  • Photopea
  • Selection Tools
  • Clipping Masks
  • Transform Tools

Assignment:

Over the past few days, we have tested our acquired Digital Imaging skills by fixing a Photoshop Disaster. Today, we are going to use our acquired digital photo manipulation skills to create something entirely new, and completely impossible.  

  1. Visit the above website for inspiration. Notice how many of the images use scale (size) to make the images impossible: some of the elements are impossibly big or impossibly small. Others place elements in places where they don’t normally belong (i.e. a giant mouth where the subject’s stomach should be).
  2. Your goal is to produce an Impossible Image, just like the ones in the example link, with the following restrictions:
    • You may ONLY use photographs that you took yourself. You MAY NOT use any images borrowed from the Internet, from other people, or from any other source other than your own original photo collection.
    • You may use your own phone camera or laptop camera, but you must provide the original photo files as proof that you are the photographer who took the pictures. If you do not have a camera or phone with camera capabilities, you may use the camera built into the laptop.
    • You must use at least THREE original images to comprise the final composite image.
    • Your image should depict a completely impossible scenario, situation or condition, but should look as realistic as possible.
    • Your image should be 11″ x 17″, (or 17″ x 11″, if you’re making it landscape).
    • Note: In Part 2 of this activity, the final image will be placed in Vectr, in a photo frame with a 1″ colored border.
  3. Apply whatever modifications you feel are necessary to make the image look as realistic as possible. Pay close attention to detail, shadows, scaling and your selection edges. Don’t make this into a Photoshop Disaster!
  4. Save (Export) your image as a .png file.
  5. Upload your Photopea image (.png) into the “Impossible Images – Part 1” post on the Google Classroom page by the end of the day on Friday, April 2nd.

Assigned: March 31st, 2021
Teacher Pacing Due Date: April 2nd, 2021

Computer Graphic Design

PHOTOSHOP DISASTER RECOVERY WITH PHOTOPEA Spring 2021

Objective:

I can use digital image repair tools to fix a “Photoshop Disaster”.  

Links:

Photopea website
Vectr website
Google Image Search Result: “Photoshop Fails”

Topics Discussed:

  • Photoshop Disasters
  • Photoshop Image Repair

Assignment:

In our last assignment, we tested our acquired Photoshop skills by building a composite image using several smaller images. Today, we are going to continue to look at some examples of Photoshop alterations gone horribly wrong. By the end of this week, we are going to use our skills to recover some of these “Photoshop Disasters”.  

  1. Visit the links above. Look through the examples of “Photoshop Disasters”, have a good laugh, and select one that you think you can correct using the image repair techniques we have studied in class. (Keep it school appropriate!)
  2. Save a copy of this photo to your Desktop, and open it in Photopea.
  3. Apply whatever modifications you feel are necessary to make the image look more realistic, or to fix the obvious problem. The final image should look more realistic than the original, so pay close attention to detail. The final image should be realistic and convincing, not just “less bad”.
  4. Save your corrected image as a .PNG file with a different filename than the original.
  5. Create a new Vectr document on https://vectr.com. Save it with your name and “Photoshop Disaster Recovery”.
  6. Place both the original image and your corrected version into the Vectr document. Use the Type Tool to label the original and the corrected version, and use lines and shapes to point out exactly where the changes were made.
  7. On the same page, write a few sentences explaining the exact process you followed to correct the image in Photopea. Use the correct terminology and tool names. (Did you use the Healing Brush Tool? The Spot Healing Brush Tool? The Patch Tool? Did you use a Lasso Selection? A Quick Selection? The Magic Wand? Did you have to manipulate Layers? Did you have to flatten Layers? Did you have to Scale portions of the image?)
  8. Export your completed Vectr document (with the original and fixed images plus your paragraph explaining what you did to fix the image) as a .PNG file, and upload a copy to the Google Classroom assignment post by end of day on Tuesday, March 30th.

Assigned: March 24th, 2021
Teacher Pacing Due Date: March 30th, 2021